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Create A Print Ready PDF from InDesign CS3:
9 simple steps

Instructions:

1. Select Export from the File Menu, as shown above.

2. Select the destination for your PDF to export to, probably your desktop, and be sure to give it an appropriate name, as shown above.

3. From the Adobe PDF Preset pull down menu select "PDF/X-1a:2001" This preset will set almost every setting for a high resolution PDF, ready for printing. See picture above.

4. From the Standard pull down menu select "PDF/X-1a:2001", pictured above.

5. In the "Compression" tab, verify that all of your images are set to sample at 300dpi for color and grayscale images, and 1200dpi for monochrome images, as shown above. Some people uncheck compress text and line art, but we have not seen where it has made a difference.

6. IMPORTANT STEP: In the "Marks and Bleeds" tab, you will need to check "All Printer's Marks", set the "Offset" to .25 inches, and set the "Bleed" to at least .125 inches. Those settings are pictured above.

7. In the advanced tab, verify, that the "Transparency Flattener" is set to High Resolution", as seen above.

8. Click the "Export" button

9. Send us your file. Click here for our FTP instructions, or click here to go directly to our FTP.

>> please feel free to contact us with any questions, about this PDF process.

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And now - the Fun Stuff:

So your a bit of a movie buff? Download this Microsoft Excel file and look at the 72 still pics of scenes from movies. You have to guess what movies it is. Sounds easy right? Wrong! The faces arms and legs have been removed so all you see are the clothes and the backdrop. Good Luck!

TIPS:
1. Type in the name of the movie in the light blue space provided and it will tell you if you are right or wrong and keep your score.
2. Make sure you type it in correctly, including "the's, ands; ect." No abbreviations either, type it in exactly as it was in the original movie title. The case does not matter.
3. If you are wrong, you can delete it and try again.
4. These are old and new movies

Check out this Older Couple for a quick laugh. Click here to download this short flick (2.7mb).

Photoshop Tips & Tricks:
Making Ice

1. Open a new document.

2. With black as your foreground color choose the paint bucket tool and fill your 'canvas' with black.

3. Choose your text tool and type your word, making the color of your text a pale blue.

4. Render the layer if using Photoshop by choosing Layer > Type > Render Layer.

5. Turn your image on its side by Image > Rotate Canvas > 90º CW. Now choose Filter > Stylize > Wind with the options wind, from the left.

6. Turn your text back up the right way Image > Rotate Canvas > 90º CCW. Now your done or you can try it another way...

Optional Steps

1. After step 4: Choose Filter > Noise > Add Noise and chose an amount of 50, gaussian, and monochromatic. Then, Choose Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize with a cell size of about 10, and then apply a gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) of about 1 pixel.

2. You can also add some sparkle. Choose white as your foreground color and choose the airbrush tool. Check your brushes to see if you have a brush shaped like a X. If not you can get it by clicking on the small right pointing arrow on the brushes palette and choosing Load Brushes. You will find extra brushes in your Photoshop folder under Goodies, Brushes, Assorted Brushes. When you have your brush selected click at random on your text to make the sparkles.